Oh, and I now figured out why I can't get Julia to pre-compile the modules I want. Apparently you have to be building it from source...
Now I'll go and give that a try. Cheers, Daniel. On Friday, 24 October 2014 15:47:58 UTC+2, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > Yes, it seems to work. Apparently my Julia directory is > "/usr/bin/../share/julia/base/", so that's one problem solved. Thanks! > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > On 24 October 2014 14:53, Till Ehrengruber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You cuold look where your julia base library is located for example by >> >> functionloc(push!) >> ("/usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.3.1/bin/../share/julia/base/array.jl",464) >> >> >> I'm on OS X but it should work on Ubuntu as well >> >> Am Freitag, 24. Oktober 2014 14:31:32 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Carrera: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am running Ubuntu with Julia 0.3.1 installed from PPA. I want to >>> figure out where my Julia base directory is so I can create a userimg.jl >>> file so I can pre-compile some modules that I use often. I got the idea >>> from here: >>> >>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Gtk.jl/blob/master/doc/precompilation.md >>> >>> The problem is that I cannot figure out where my jula/base directory is. >>> It appears to be nowhere. I have two candidate directories: >>> >>> /usr/share/julia >>> /usr/local/julia >>> >>> My Julia version is 0.3.1. The file /usr/share/julia/VERSION says it >>> is 0.3.0-prerelease. On the other hand, /var/lib/dpkg/info/julia.list >>> seems to say that /usr/share/julia is the correct directory. So that >>> doesn't make sense. The other directory --- /usr/local/julia --- does >>> not have any VERSION file or anything that I could that would tell me what >>> version of Julia it is for. I tried adding the "userimg.jl" file to >>> both directories, but that didn't do anything. Even more strangely, neither >>> directory one seems to be required for Julia to run. Look: >>> >>> >>> $ sudo mv /usr/share/julia $HOME/usr-share-julia >>> $ sudo mv /usr/local/julia $HOME/usr-local-julia >>> $ >>> $ julia --version >>> julia version 0.3.1 >>> $ >>> $ julia >>> _ >>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing >>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org >>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" for help. >>> | | | | | | |/ _` | | >>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.1 (2014-09-21 21:30 UTC) >>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org release >>> |__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu >>> >>> julia> >>> >>> >>> In other words, neither of those directories seems to be needed to run >>> Julia. So, I am completely stuck. I have two "base" directories, >>> neither of which seems to do anything. >>> >>> Can anyone help me out? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Daniel. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > -- > When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase > that means it's not fun to do. >
